sullen - Story 143045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing Maria noticed was the dust. It swirled in the air, a constant reminder of the chaos next door. She’d spent the morning cleaning, but now, her home felt tainted. It felt like no effort would be enough.

She slumped onto the sofa, picking listlessly at a loose thread on the cushion. The thought of dealing with the inevitable mess, the delayed deliveries, the constant inconvenience, was exhausting. She closed her eyes, trying to conjure a moment of tranquility, but the sounds of the renovation intruded, uninvited.

Emotion: sullen

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.51 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sullen. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sullen stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sullen emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sullen vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.404
`😞`	0.282
`’`	0.254
`:(`	0.233
`无法`	0.215

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.539
`!`	-0.276
`la`	-0.263
`🤩`	-0.225
`que`	-0.216